Grammatical awareness in the spoken and written language of language-disabled children.
Experiments examined grammatical judgement, and error-identification deficits in relation to expressive language skills and to morphemic errors in writing. Language-disabled subjects did not differ from language-matched controls on judgement, revision, or error identification. Age-matched controls represented more morphemes in elicited writing than either of the other groups, which were equivalent. However, in spontaneous writing, language-disabled subjects made more frequent morphemic errors than age-matched controls, but language-matched subjects did not differ from either group. Proficiency relative to academic experience and oral language status and to remedial implications are discussed.
Rubin
H
H
Department of Speech Pathology, University of Toronto.
Kantor
M
M
Macnab
J
J
D001288:Attention; D001364:Awareness; D002648:Child; D004519:Education, Special; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D012660:Semantics; D013067:Speech Perception; D014956:Writing